'I came here to witness the historic message this oath-taking ceremony has sent to the nation and Maharashtra.'
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'We might have been better prepared to deal with the pandemic had so much time, attention and money not gone into welcoming one of the stupidest men on the planet.'
Sachin Tendulkar was among the many who paid their last respects to the cricketer, coach-manager and administrator.
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At Ganesh Galli, one of Mumbai's oldest pandals, a team of more than 60 workers came together to create Ayodhya's Ram Mandir.
The renaming will take place on September 12 at a function where a stand at the Kotla will be named after India captain Virat Kohli as announced earlier.
In the notice, she sought a divorce on the grounds that their marriage had "irretrievably broken down".
AIIMS-Delhi is among the 12 sites selected by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) for conducting Phase I and II randomised, double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical trials of Covaxin.
'Cases are increasing, day by day, because testing has increased.'
On December 7, the BMC wrote back to Kashalkar saying that on inspection, no unauthorised extensions had been found in the Kamla Mills area.
'...If people follow the lockdown well.'
'Mumbai is at a peak, from here it can only be a downward trend.'
Rishi pushed a senior TV channel reporter and allegedly slapped two photographers.
'Considering Mumbai's population density, one can expect to see more positive cases in areas like Dharavi in the days to come.' 'That is the challenge before the public health infrastructure and preparation of the city in dealing with such crises.'
'But to see the effects of that, it will take a week or two more.'
A delegation of account-holders went to Sion police station in central Mumbai and submitted the complaint against officials of the bank on which the RBI has imposed operational restrictions. The delegation in its complaint alleged that at least 14 people, including the PMC Bank's chairman and all its directors, were involved in misappropriation of funds of the account-holders.
Housing minister Prakash Mehta, who represented the state government at the funeral of the celebrated cricket coach, said Achrekar not being given a state funeral was 'sad and unfortunate'.
The plot C-65 in the G Block of Bandra Kurla Complex was leased to Goisu Realty (a unit of Sumitomo) for 80 years by MMRDA.
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'In Mumbai the mortality rate was reaching a percentage of almost 8 plus in about April.' 'But now over last one month, we have come down.' 'We have drastically controlled mortality.' 'We are now about 3.9.'
Mumbai's famed temple welcomed a couple of celebrities.
Awesome Star Power was evident at *the* wedding reception of the year.
Office space on mill land in central Mumbai expected to reach 16 mn sq ft by 2021.
The municipal body has directed its officials to form teams to ensure that all the restaurants are fire safety compliant in view of the New Year celebrations.
All opposition parties should come together to get rid of the BJP-led NDA government to ensure "Modi-mukt Bharat", he said, reminding the audience of BJP's "Congress-mukt Bharat" slogan.
'... so that the hospitals do not get overwhelmed. We have to avoid it at all costs.'
India is going into the longest lockdown in the world, with the least amount of notice given to its people and the least preparation by its government.
'When we talk about social distancing, it almost impossible to maintain this in slums.' 'So we had to talk to the people about cleanliness.' 'It was a task because everybody uses public toilets. So our volunteers targeted those spots to spread awareness.'
'One of the reasons I like Mumbai is because I find your prices unbelievably low,' Donald Trump declared.
The actress turned heads in her black gown.
Several Bollywood stars are visiitn gGanpati pandals to pay their respects.
The star actor was flanked by thousands of fans as he went pandal-hopping recently.
'65 per cent were males.' 'Age group of deaths: More were seen from age 51 to 70.' 'Saw some deaths from age 21 to the 40s.' 'About 76 to 77 per cent of patient deaths had some kind of a comorbidity.' 'The main comorbidities were the presence of diabetes, hypertension, some kind of heart diseases.'
Chhagan Bhujbal, Jayant Patil (both from the NCP), Balasaheb Thorat and Nitin Raut (both from the Congress), Eknath Shinde and Subhash Desai (both from the Sena) took oath as ministers along with Thackeray.
The A-list actor came out in support of his younger cousin Armaan Jain as he promoted his acting debut Lekar Hum Deewana Dil.
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